​Mr. Hammer is a Senior Managing Director and Co-founder of Izar Capital Group, a private merchant bank specializing in a wide variety of middle-market corporate finance, strategic advisory and real estate transactions, with a strong focus on business building engagements. Activities include mergers and acquisitions, project finance, sourcing and structuring private debt and equity capital, complex financial restructurings, corporate financial advisory services, private equity investment analysis and arranging corporate alliances and joint-ventures. Most recently, Mr. Hammer served as a Senior Advisor and a Subject Matter Expert to IBM on behalf of the DOE, where he led the team in a series of deals, serving as investment banker to the DOE’s Loan Guarantee Office, involving sourcing, structuring, negotiations and general financial advisory work, and resulting in consummation of several “first of their kind” industry deals.

Mr. Hammer is best known as a problem-solving negotiator, and regularly serves as strategic adviser to corporate boards and CEOs in their business combination and growth activities. Mr. Hammer has extensive specialized experience within many industry verticals, has direct private equity investment experience, has operational company experience, and has an abundance of senior strategic advisory experience. He is a frequent speaker on, is frequently quoted as an industry expert on and has written articles concerning corporate finance, strategy, valuation and operations.

Mr. Hammer was also the founder of Navigator Capital Group, private merchant bank, has been an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in New York, Waller Capital, a media and communications investment and merchant bank in New York, and Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin in Washington, DC. In addition, he is a registered FINRA securities representative and compliance principal.

Mr. Hammer received his M.B.A. from Cambridge University, the Judge Business School, St. John’s College. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from The University of Texas at Austin.